OK, I was able to disable my touch pad but not exactly as described in the previous post. When I expanded "Mice and other pointing devices", the two options I got were "HID-compliant mouse" and "PS/2 Compatible mouse". These devices were already showing as disabled, so I expanded "Human Interface Devices" in the Device Manager and got 6 options, one of which was "HID-compliant touch pad" and when I clicked on Disable in the right click menu of that option the touch pad was disabled after saying OK to a couple of warnings asking me if I was sure this is what I wanted to do. So even though this answer didn't directly solve the problem it pointed me in the right direction, so thank you LSUFAN51 for taking the time to answer my post.
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1. Right click the Start's button at the bottom left hand of the page
2. Click Device Manager
3. Look for "Mice and other pointed things"
4. Right click Dell Touchpad. You should see the Disable option
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January 23rd, 2016 13:00
OK, I was able to disable my touch pad but not exactly as described in the previous post. When I expanded "Mice and other pointing devices", the two options I got were "HID-compliant mouse" and "PS/2 Compatible mouse". These devices were already showing as disabled, so I expanded "Human Interface Devices" in the Device Manager and got 6 options, one of which was "HID-compliant touch pad" and when I clicked on Disable in the right click menu of that option the touch pad was disabled after saying OK to a couple of warnings asking me if I was sure this is what I wanted to do. So even though this answer didn't directly solve the problem it pointed me in the right direction, so thank you LSUFAN51 for taking the time to answer my post.